Insursight.ai is a special interest group focusing on artificial intelligence solutions tailored for insurance and finance problems, gathered under KUIS-AI Lab, a Koc University and Isbank joint initiative. The group brings together key expertise from academia and industry with the goal of developing problem driven solutions utilizing state-of-art AI techniques.
ŞAHİN UTAR is an Entrepreneur, CTO, and Board Member in the technology space, known as one of the pioneers of consumer insurance platforms, and a long-time hands-on technologist. Right after graduating from Bilkent University as a Computer Engineer, he started his career coding a health insurance core for a newly established underwriter. Between 1998 and 2003, he worked for tech companies in the United States as a software architect, including Intel and Inprise. In his 31 years as a software developer, architect, domain expert, and engineering leader Şahin helped the industry accomplish significant technological advances as an influencer, executive, and individual contributor.
ARKADAŞ ÖZAKIN is a full-time faculty member at Bogazici University, Physics Department. Dr. Özakın received his PhD in Theoretical Physics from California Institute of Technology in 2003. He was a senior research scientist on theoretical and applied machine learning and quantum computation at Georgia Institute of Technology before moving to Silicon Valley to work as senior researcher on machine learning at Skytree and the Voleon Group. He joined Bogazici University, Physics Department in 2020.
BURAK ACAR is a full-time professor at Boğaziçi University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Istanbul. Dr. Acar received his PhD from Bilkent University in 2000 on medical signal analysis and cardiac risk stratification. He worked at Stanford University Medical School as a researcher on medical imaging and computer aided diagnostics before joining Boğaziçi University in 2003. He is the director of VAVlab. Dr. Acar’s research spans the fields of signal/image processing and data analytics towards decision making across different domains.
DENİZ YURET is a full-time professor at Koc University, Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul. Dr. Yuret received his PhD from MIT in computer science in 1998, where he was a member of MIT AI Lab. He later founded the question answering start-up Inquira, Inc. which was acquired by Oracle. He joined Koc University in 2002. He is the founding director of KUIS-AI Lab, jointly established by Koç University & İş Bankası. His research is focused on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. He is also the developer of the popular Julia deep learning toolbox, Knet.